On 05 November 2003 17:06, Marco Tabini contributed these pearls of wisdom:
Christian Schneider wrote:
Marco Tabini wrote:
$a = [[1,2,3],[1=>[1,3,2,2], "a"=>[[1,2,3,4],4,[1,2]]];
$a = array(array(1,2,3),array(1=>array(1,3,2,2), "a"=>array(array(1,2,3,4),4,array(1,2)));
Besides my previous points, something even more abominable:
$a = [1,2,$b[11]];
Is that confusing enough for you? ;-)
What's confusing about it?
The fact that $b[11] references an item of an array, while [1,2,$b[11]] assigns values to the array $a. The fact that you (and, probably, most of us) can't tell right off the bat is a clear sign that this is a bad idea, because it's ambiguous and confusing.
The same line using the current syntax, btw, would have looked like this:
$a = array (1,3,$b[11]);
As you can see the ambiguity is gone--square brackets are used for one purpose and nothing else.
Cheers,
Marco
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